Quotes
Quotes about Vice
Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.
Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.
Love cannot remain by itselfâ it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. "Careful with fire," is good advice we know "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
